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enRemove tap ripple (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/remove-tap-ripple-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="LunaCE Tweaks" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/Tweaks-LunaCE_1.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />Ever since the original Palm Pre was released running webOS 1.0.1, any time you tapped on the screen of a webOS device you would see a &quot;tap ripple&quot; animation to indicate the location of your tap. While it may be nice to know where you tapped on the screen, it can also cause a slight bit of lag on your device, especially in high frame-rate PDK applications. Unfortunately, you have never had any control over the presence of the tap ripple until the release of <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> for the HP TouchPad, the homebrew update for the TouchPad by <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> based off the Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>). With a simple toggle in the homebrew Tweaks application, you can now turn the ripple on or off at will.</p>
<p>Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have Tweaks installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature. Once you have both of them installed, you just need to go to the &quot;Gestures&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;SHOW TAP RIPPLE&quot; to NO to turn off the tap ripple.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/remove-tap-ripple-lunace#commentsLunaCEtap rippletip a dayTipstouchpadtweaksFri, 29 Mar 2013 20:49:16 +0000Adam Marks16072 at http://www.webosnation.comInfinite card cycling (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/infinite-card-cycling-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="LunaCE Tweaks" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/Tweaks-LunaCE_0.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />Using <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view">cards</a> in webOS has always been a great way to multitask on a mobile operating system and works <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">just as well on the TouchPad</a>&nbsp;as well. However, if you have a lot of cards or <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">stacks</a> open, you may find yourself doing a lot scrolling to find that app you want.&nbsp; If you have installed <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a>--the homebrew update for the TouchPad by WebOS Ports based off the Open Source &quot;webOS Community Edition&quot; (not to be confused with Open webOS)--you can <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/enable-mini-card-view-touchpad-lunace">enable mini-card view</a> or <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-card-view-zoom-level-lunace">set your own card zoom level</a> to see more open cards at once. Another option that LunaCE gives you is the ability to loop through your cards, so you can keep scrolling when you get to the last card to bring up the first card. It also works in reverse, where you can scroll continue to scroll to the right after you have reached the first cad and it will bring you to the end of the list.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have Tweaks installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature. Once you have both of them installed, you just need to go to the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Infinite card cycling&quot; to YES in the &quot;CARDS&quot; section to activate this feature.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/infinite-card-cycling-lunace#commentscard viewgestureshomebrewHP TouchPadLunaCEtip a dayTipstweaksMon, 18 Mar 2013 19:53:27 +0000Adam Marks16064 at http://www.webosnation.comEnable permanent "Just Type" quick-access status bar icon (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/enable-permanent-just-type-quick-access-status-bar-icon-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="Just Type LunaCE search" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/LucaCE Just Type Search.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />While accessing <a href="http://www.precentral.net/universal-search-now-just-type-webos-2-0">Just Type</a> to perform a search on your TouchPad is never more than a swipe and a tap away (by <a href="http://www.precentral.net/know-your-gestures-swipe-pressing-center-button-lcd">swiping up</a> to minimize the current app and then tapping on the &quot;Just type...&quot; search bar), <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a>--the homebrew update for the TouchPad by <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> based off the Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>)--makes it even easier.&nbsp; LunaCE gives you the ability to add a persistent icon to the status bar on the top of the TouchPad&#39;s screen that will give you quick-access to the <a href="http://www.precentral.net/universal-search-now-just-type-webos-2-0">Just Type search</a> screen from almost anywhere in webOS. If you can see the&nbsp;<img alt="Just Type icon" height="24" src="/sites/webosnation.com/files/postimages/6379/JustTypeSearchicon.png" title="" width="25" />icon on the top-right of the screen, you can access Just Type and won&#39;t even need to leave your current app first.</p>
<p>Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have Tweaks installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature. Once you have both of them installed, you just need to go to the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Enable Search Icon&quot; to YES in the &quot;STATUS BAR&quot; section to activate this feature.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/enable-permanent-just-type-quick-access-status-bar-icon-lunace#commentsjust typeLunaCEtip a dayTipstouchpadtweaksMon, 25 Feb 2013 19:54:11 +0000Adam Marks16034 at http://www.webosnation.comEnable mini-card view on the TouchPad (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/enable-mini-card-view-touchpad-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="LunaCE Card Zoom" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/TouchPadZoomLunaCE_0.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" /><a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> (pronounced &quot;lunacy&quot;), the homebrew update for the TouchPad by <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> is based off the Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; released by HP (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>). It contains a number of enhancements to the TouchPad, including those on how you are able to interact with open application when in <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">card mode</a>. You now have the ability to <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-stack-overlap-spread-lunace">adjust the overlap level of cards in a stack</a> and the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-card-view-zoom-level-lunace">zoom level of the cards</a>, but LunaCE has also brought back a feature that used to exist in webOS 1.x but was removed in webOS 2.0: the mini card view!</p>
<p> By tapping on the area below an open card or stack when in card view, the zoom level of the cards will adjust to allow you to see a mini view that will show up to 5 cards or stacks at once. Tap below the cards again and the apps will return to the normal zoom level. If you also have the &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-card-view-zoom-level-lunace">Card Zoom Gesture</a>&quot; tweak enabled, the mini-card mode will remember your custom zoom level and use that instead.</p>
<p>Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">Preware</a>, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks</a> installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature. Once you have both of them installed, you just need to go to the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Enable Mini Cards&quot; to YES in the &quot;CARDS&quot; section to activate this feature.<br />
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http://www.webosnation.com/enable-mini-card-view-touchpad-lunace#commentscard viewLunaCEmini cardstip a dayTipstouchpadtweaksMon, 18 Feb 2013 19:54:10 +0000Adam Marks16025 at http://www.webosnation.comAdjust card view zoom level (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-card-view-zoom-level-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="Adjust card view zoom level (LunaCE)" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/TouchPadZoomLunaCE.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />Although the size of the screen on the TouchPad is much larger than that of any webOS phone, the size of the apps that are visible in the <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view">cards</a> and <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">stacks</a> that are shown in <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view">card view</a>&nbsp;are no different. This is not exactly an efficient use of screen real estate that should allow you to see more of the apps that are available to you. With the released of the Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>), the group at <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> was able to give you more control over how the cards and stacks appear on the screen as part <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> (pronounced &quot;lunacy&quot;), available in <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">Preware</a>. Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks </a>installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature.</p>
<p>Just as you can adjust the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-stack-overlap-spread-lunace">Stack overlap spread</a> amount to view more of the apps within a stack, LunaCE also gives you the ability to adjust the zoom level of the cards and stacks on the screen.&nbsp; Once you go into the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Card Zoom Gestures&quot; to YES in the &quot;GESTURES&quot; section, you can then perform a two-fingered in or out gesture when in Card View to adjust that zoom level. You can keep the zoom to a level where you only see a sliver of the adjacent stacks to the current one, or zoom out to be able to view up to 5 stacks at once in landscape.</p>
<p>The one thing to note is that if you also have the &quot;Stack spread gestures&quot; toggle also set to YES, any time you pinch-in or -out to zoom on a stack with more than one card will prioritize the stack spread gesture and not the zoom amount. You will need to swipe over to a stack with only a single card first and then perform the zoom gesture.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-card-view-zoom-level-lunace#commentscard viewLunaCEtip a dayTipstouchpadtweaksWed, 13 Feb 2013 23:11:22 +0000Adam Marks16019 at http://www.webosnation.comAdjust Stack overlap spread (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-stack-overlap-spread-lunace
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<img alt="TouchPad stack spread out" class="imagecache-large" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/large/postimages/6379/Card View - Spread Gesture.png" title="" /></p>
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p>While the <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view">card</a> and <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">stack</a> method of multitasking in webOS will allow you to see many of your open applications at once, you are only able to get a small glimpse of what is on the screen for any app beside the top one. While this made sense for phones that have limited screen real estate, the TouchPad offers a much larger area for you to work with so it would be great if you could see more of the open apps in a stack. Unfortunately, you have no say in how much each app overlaps each other.</p>
<p>However, once HP released their Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>), the group at <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> was able to give you the ability to adjust the overlap settings with a simple gesture as part of <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> (pronounced &quot;lunacy&quot;), available in <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">Preware</a>. Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks</a> installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature.</p>
<p>Once you go into the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Stack Spread Gestures&quot; to YES in the &quot;GESTURES&quot; section, you can then perform a two-fingered zoom-in or -out gesture when in Card View and you have a stack with more than one app. For stacks with only two cards, you spread the cards enough to be able to see almost 75% of the app in the back. As you can see in the screenshot, for 3-card stacks, you can spread the stack where you can still see more than half of each app. Of course, as you add more apps to a stack, the visible area of each app will go down as well. And If you want to go back to only seeing a sliver of each app, just pinch your fingers together and they will collapse back together.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-stack-overlap-spread-lunace#commentscard viewgesturesLunaCEstackstip a dayTipstouchpadtweaksFri, 08 Feb 2013 22:05:45 +0000Adam Marks16012 at http://www.webosnation.comEnable swipe to switch applications (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/enable-swipe-switch-applications-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="Tweaks - LunaCE" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/Tweaks-LunaCE.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />One of the defining features of webOS has always been the gestures that you can use to navigate around the OS. While the release of the TouchPad saw the first webOS device without a <a href="http://www.precentral.net/tip-roundup-gesture-area">gesture area</a>, it still kept many of the same gestures that were found on webOS phones. You could still <a href="http://www.precentral.net/know-your-gestures-swipe-pressing-center-button-lcd">swipe up</a> to minimize a card or <a href="http://www.precentral.net/know-your-gestures-swipe-down">swipe down</a> to access the Application or Device dropdown menus, but gone was the ability to quickly switch apps with the <a href="http://www.precentral.net/know-you-gestures-full-swipe-advanced-gesture">Advanced Swipe (full swipe of the gesture area</a>). Because, you know, no gesture area was there.</p>
<p>However, once HP released their Open Source <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a> for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>), the group at <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> was able to bring back the advanced gesture to quickly switch between apps as part of <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> (pronounced &quot;lunacy&quot;), available in <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">Preware</a>. Note that LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a>. In addition, you will need to have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks</a> installed on your TouchPad to toggle this new feature.</p>
<p>Once you go into the &quot;Luna&quot; section of Tweaks and toggle &quot;Enable Side Bezel Gestures&quot; to YES in the &quot;GESTURES&quot; section, you can then swipe in from either side of the screen to switch to the next open app, based on the direction of you swipe. However, this functions a bit differently depending on if you have also enabled LunaCE&#39;s <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/enable-tabbed-cards-lunace">Tabbed Card</a> feature and the app is part of a larger <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">stack</a>.</p>
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If Tabbed Cards is not enabled, swiping in from the side of the screen will switch to the next app, regardless of it&#39;s the next app in the same stack or in a separate stack.</li>
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If Tabbed Cards is&nbsp;enabled and your current app is not part of a larger stack, swiping in from the bezel will act the same as if Tabbed Cards aren&#39;t enabled and just switch you to the next app.</li>
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If Tabbed Cards is enabled and the app is part of a larger stack, swiping in from the side will first activate the tabbed card functionality and show the remaining cards in that stack as tabs on the side of the screen. You can then swipe in the from bezel again and it will switch to the first card in the next stack.</li>
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http://www.webosnation.com/enable-swipe-switch-applications-lunace#commentsadvanced gesturesgesturesHP TouchPadLunaCEtabbed cardstip a dayTipswebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsFri, 01 Feb 2013 20:41:22 +0000Adam Marks15999 at http://www.webosnation.comEnable Tabbed Cards (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/enable-tabbed-cards-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="Tweaks - Tabbed LunaCE browsing" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/Tweaks - Tabbed Vert.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />When HP released their Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>), the group at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a>&nbsp;was able to package up those changes along with a bunch of enhancements and released it as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a>&nbsp;(pronounced lunacy&quot;) in Preware. LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have&nbsp;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks</a>&nbsp;installed on your TouchPad to toggle any of the new enhancements.</p>
<p>One of those aforementioned enhancements is the ability to use Tabbed Cards. While webOS 1.0 introduced the multitasking &quot;<a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view">card</a>&quot; metaphor and webOS 2.0 expanded that to allow for <a href="http://www.precentral.net/working-card-view-stacks-update-webos-2-0">stacking of cards</a>, LunaCE further redefined it by allowing quick access to switching between stacked applications using tabs along the side of the screen. Once you go into Luna section in Tweaks and toggle the &quot;TABBED CARDS&quot; option, all you need to do is swipe in the from either side of screen and your current application will shift over a little to expose a mini-view of all the other apps that are in that same stack.&nbsp; Tapping on one of those mini cards will cause that app to be put in focus. Once you get the app you want in focus, tap on it and the mini tabbed cards will disappear.</p>
<p>Technically, you can perform the same action by <a href="http://www.precentral.net/enable-swipe-webos-3-0">swiping up</a> to go into card mode and then tapping on the card in the stack that you want. However, this tabbed method gives you a little clearer view of all the apps in the stack and you can cycle through all the apps in the stack without having to go back into card mode each time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>However, there are a few things that you should be aware of when using tabbed cards:</p>
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Every time you tap on a tabbed card, you swap the actual location within the stack of the current apps and that one you selected. Therefore, when you do go back to card mode and see your stack, the order of the cards will have changed</li>
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If there is only one app in a stack, swiping in the from the side of the screen will not perform any action.</li>
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If there are more than four apps in the stack, you can scroll through the tabs by swiping up or down through the tabs.</li>
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http://www.webosnation.com/enable-tabbed-cards-lunace#commentsgesturesHP TouchPadLunaCEtabbed cardstip a dayTipswebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsFri, 25 Jan 2013 21:17:36 +0000Adam Marks15989 at http://www.webosnation.comAdjust Gesture Detection Method (LunaCE)http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-gesture-detection-method-lunace
<p><em>This tip is only for HP TouchPads running webOS 3.0.5 and LunaCE 4.9.5 or higher</em></p>
<p><img alt="Tweaks - LunaCE Gesture Detection" class="imagecache-medium" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/medium/postimages/6379/Tweaks-LunaCE Gesture.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" title="" />When HP released their Open Source &quot;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>&quot; for the HP TouchPad (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/open-webos">Open webOS</a>), the group at <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> was able to package up those changes along with a bunch of enhancements and released it as <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">LunaCE</a> (pronounced lunacy&quot;) in Preware. LunaCE is currently in beta so you will need to go through the process to set-up the beta feeds in Preware, which can be found at testing.preware.org. In addition, you will need to have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/tweaks">Tweaks</a> installed on your TouchPad to toggle any of the new enhancements.</p>
<p>One enhancement that is available in LunaCE is the ability to adjust the Gesture Detection method when swiping in from the bottom of the screen (as long as you have <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/enable-swipe-webos-3-0">Swipe up enabled on your device</a>) to minimize your app. You have three options that you can choose from by opening up Tweaks and navigating to the Luna section</p>
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<strong>Swipe</strong> - You need to perform a fast swipe up from the bottom of the device and the gesture will be detected when you pull your finger up from the screen. If you perform a slow swipe up, nothing will happen.&nbsp; This is the&nbsp;closest option to the stock webOS 3.0.5 experience</li>
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<strong>Slide</strong> - No matter how quickly or slowly you swipe up, you just need to swipe up 15 pixels from the bezel of the device. You do not need to even lift your finger from the screen, just swipe past that 15 pixel line and the gesture will activate</li>
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<strong>Fluid</strong> - This option provides the most natural option where the device actually&nbsp;tracks your finger and&nbsp;will show the transitional state of the app from active to being minimized. If you pick up your finger before the app is fully minimized, it will snap back to full screen</li>
</ul>
<p>Regardless of your choice, LunaCE does provide one additional major improvement to the webOS experience. On a stock TouchPad, a swipe up from the bottom may minimize your app to card mode, but it will also interact with the app. So if you are reading a webpage it will scroll that page, if you have a drawing app up it may draw a line on your swipe, or if you are playing a game that swipe may cause an unanticipated action. In LunaCE, all swipes from the bezel of the device no longer affect the current app, which is a great thing!</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/adjust-gesture-detection-method-lunace#commentsgesturesHP TouchPadLunaCEswipe uptip a dayTipswebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsWed, 23 Jan 2013 23:40:14 +0000Adam Marks15986 at http://www.webosnation.comDash Weather brings double-height weather status to your notification areahttp://www.webosnation.com/dash-weather-brings-double-height-weather-status-your-notification-area
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<p>One of the things we wish has been utilized more in the webOS notification area was the option to display a status bar of some sort. There&#39;ve been a few apps, like <a href="https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.supergigamega.weatherdash">Weather Dashboard</a> (and <a href="https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.supergigamega.weatherdashhd">its TouchPad-sized variant</a>) or <a href="https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.moresol.live.sports">the Sports Live! apps</a> to display sports game score alerts. But by-and-large, the quasi-widget status potential with the webOS notification area was never fully realized.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/lunace">homebrew LunaCE improvements</a> have breathed new life into the dashboard potential for the TouchPad, <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/new-lunace-beta-includes-tall-dashboard-widgets-new-keyboard-layouts-better-cards-management">offering the option for taller, and thus richer and more interactive, notifications</a>. Taking full advantage of that is webOS Nation Forum member and developer <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/garrett92c">Garret92c</a>, who has whipped up a nice clean dashboard app for your weather, appropriately titled &quot;<a href="http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad-homebrew/318415-app-dash-weather.html">Dash Weather</a>&quot;. The app lives in your notification area and is compatible with both webOS tablets and smartphones. Dash Weather uses webOS&#39;s location services to get your local weather, so even GPS-less TouchPad users can get localized weather information thanks to ballparking it off your Wi-Fi IP address.</p>
<p>On a smartphone or standard TouchPad, Dash Weather displays the current temperature, forecasted high and low, and two other bits of your choice, including the location, current conditions (cloudy/fair/etc), sunrise/sunset, and more. But what really makes Dash Weather is the LunaCE option, allowing you to have a double-height dashboard widget. With that taller space you can display more info at once (duh), and it thankfully carries over onto a LunaCE-enabled TouchPad&#39;s lock screen too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webosnation.com/dash-weather">Dash Weather is available for free from the webOS Nation Homebrew Gallery</a>, and <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">through Preware and WebOS Quick Install</a>. If you happen to like it, we recommend sending a donation the way of Garrett92c at the source link below.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/dash-weather-brings-double-height-weather-status-your-notification-area#commentsAppsDash Weathergarrett92ChomebrewLunaCEnotification areaweatherSat, 01 Dec 2012 23:27:58 +0000Derek Kessler15902 at http://www.webosnation.comLunaCE 4.9.10 Alpha vastly improves cursor placement and brings back the wave launcherhttp://www.webosnation.com/lunace-4910-alpha-vastly-improves-cursor-placement-and-brings-back-wave-launcher
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<p>It&#39;s been a little while since we last checked in on the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/lunace">LunaCE project</a>, and things are coming along quite nicely. The latest version of the alpha software based on the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-305-community-edition-released-open-source">open source webOS Community Edition</a> includes a number of new features over the already awesome stuff included. To recap, already in the LunaCE alpha the last time we looked were <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/new-lunace-beta-includes-tall-dashboard-widgets-new-keyboard-layouts-better-cards-management">larger dashboard widgets, pinch-zoom card management and mini cards</a>, <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-sees-first-release-webos-ports-lunace-alpha">tabbed card stacks, and app switching gestures</a>.</p>
<p>The latest version, 4.9.10, adds a &#39;virtual trackball&#39; for improved (i.e. any) cursor placement. The cursor mover is placed on the top right corner of the keyboard, moving over the button row to make room. Moving around the cursor is as simple as placing a finger on the little ball and dragging away. The further away you move, the further the cursor moves in that direction. The trackball is so nicely implemented that there are even little directional arrows around it that softly light up in the direction you&#39;ve dragged. Essentially the virtual trackball emulates the arrow keys from a physical bluetooth keyboard, which means you can also hold down the virtual Shift key to select text by dragging. It&#39;s not quite <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-wish-list-refined-cursor-placement">the text selection we wanted</a>, but it&#39;s certainly better than nothing. Far better, in fact, than the old hunt-and-tap we&#39;ve had to deal with up to now.</p>
<p>And making its triumphant return to webOS is the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/quick-launch-wave">wave launcher</a>. The popular quick launcher from the first version of webOS was omitted from webOS 3.0, much to the consternation and confusion of many webOS fans. Feeling that same frustration, the webOS Ports developers working on LunaCE set forth to resurrect the old standard and have done just that. The new wave launcher is implemented by swiping up along the side of the screen, from which point you can drag out to the quick launching app of your choice. And by the side of the screen, we mean the side - go just a fraction of an inch in and you&#39;ll be swiping up into card view (a gesture that&#39;s particularly awesome with the fluid motion option).</p>
<p>The cursor-moving virtual trackball is enabled by default upon installing LunaCE. It&#39;s really not something anybody would have any reason to turn off anyway, unless you like being eternally frustrated while trying to place a cursor in text you&#39;re hoping to edit. The wave launcher, along with many of the other headline LunaCE features, is enabled or disabled through <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tweaks-webos-internals-fine-tunes-your-patches">Tweaks</a>.</p>
<p>The standard &quot;this is Alpha software, tread with caution&quot; warning still applies, though in our experience over the past few weeks LunaCE has been a pleasure to use. It seems to be just as stable as a stock webOS installation and certainly is much smoother and easier to use, thanks both to optimizations and the new features it brings along. If you&#39;re wanting to test out the latest version of LunaCE, all you have to do is follow the instructions at <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a> to install.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-4910-alpha-vastly-improves-cursor-placement-and-brings-back-wave-launcher#commentscursorLunaCENewstext selectionwave launcherwebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsThu, 27 Sep 2012 22:39:44 +0000Derek Kessler15784 at http://www.webosnation.comScienceApps going all-in on LunaCE with stack launching and big notifications [video]http://www.webosnation.com/scienceapps-going-all-lunace-stack-launching-and-big-notifications-video
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="ScienceApps going all-in on LunaCE with stack launching and big notifications [v" class="imagecache-large" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/large/postimages/84473/lithium-news-lunace.png" title="" /></p>
<p>There&#39;s a lot of goodness happening with <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/lunace">LunaCE</a>, but the user-facing features are just scratching the surface. webOS developer ScienceApps has been around the block a few times, including popular apps like <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/multiple-app-launcher-mal">Multiple App Launcher</a> and <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/starter-launches-multiple-apps-includes-movement-based-launching">Starter</a>. With LunaCE, ScienceApps is amping up Starter, fixing one of our biggest complaints with the app.</p>
<p>The cool part about Starter is that it could launch multiple apps at once. The not-so-cool part was a limitation of webOS 3.x: those apps would all launch as separated cards, even if it would make sense to launch them in a stack. Starter users with LunaCE installed, however, can expect to now be able to launch multiple apps directly into a stack. The feature makes Starter, in our not so humble opinion, eminently more useful. Now you can set up a multiple app launching sequence of, for example, Facebook, Twitter, Messaging apps, all in one neat little &#39;communicate with your friends&#39; stack instead of having them spread out and needing to manually regroup them on every launch. Video after the break.</p>
<p>Starter isn&#39;t the only ScienceApps app getting the LunaCE treatment. The developer is currently working on an update to <a href="https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?packageid=com.scienceapps.lithiumnewshd">Lithium News HD</a> that will take advantage of the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-bring-better-notifications">dynamic dashboard height API</a> in LunaCE, finally allowing the TouchPad to display larger-size dashboard notifications of your news stories. The LunaCE-enabled version of Lithium News is still a work in progress, but we&#39;re looking forward to its release.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webosnation.com/new-lunace-beta-includes-tall-dashboard-widgets-new-keyboard-layouts-better-cards-management">LunaCE is currently in beta</a>, though interested users can install it as always via Preware, so long as you&#39;ve enabled the beta feeds (check out <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a> for info on how to do that). ScienceApps is one of the first developers to take advantage of what LunaCE has to offer, and we hope more webOS app developers will follow down their path. Not all TouchPad users are going to install LunaCE, in fact we&#39;d wager a relatively small portion even know of its existence, but for those that are taking the extra step of pimping out their TouchPad with the help of <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-ports-community-edition-and-how-all-works">WebOS Ports</a>, there&#39;s more goodness to come.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webosnation.com/scienceapps-going-all-lunace-stack-launching-and-big-notifications-video" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.webosnation.com/scienceapps-going-all-lunace-stack-launching-and-big-notifications-video#commentsAppsdynamic dashboard height APILunaCEScienceAppsstacksStarterWed, 19 Sep 2012 00:11:07 +0000Derek Kessler15770 at http://www.webosnation.comNew LunaCE beta includes tall dashboard widgets, new keyboard layouts, better cards managementhttp://www.webosnation.com/new-lunace-beta-includes-tall-dashboard-widgets-new-keyboard-layouts-better-cards-management
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="New LunaCE beta includes tall dashboard widgets, new keyboard layouts, better ca" class="imagecache-large" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/large/postimages/84473/WeatherWidget-preview2.png" title="" /></p>
<p>Just last week the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition</a>-derived <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/lunace">LunaCE</a> got bumped up to beta, and since then it&#39;s gone through a series up updates that have added new features. <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-sees-first-release-webos-ports-lunace-alpha">The alpha phase</a> was all about stability and testing the processes, and it seems that the beta phase for LunaCE is all about expanding the features list.</p>
<p>As of the last update we gave on <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples">the homebrew LunaSysMgr replacement</a>, LunaCE included - among other features - gesture-based card switching, tabbed card stacks, a title bar universal search button, and the ability to turn off the tap ripple. Since the beta, LunaCE&#39;s been steadily updated all the way to version 4.8.0, which has added a number of new features.</p>
<p>For international users of LunaCE, there are now a number of new keyboard layout options, including an umlaut-heavy keyboards Germanic languages. As was demonstrated several weeks back, there&#39;s now <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-gets-card-stack-management-makes-sense">pinch-zoom card management</a> in the beta. And, heeding the calls of webOS users since <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-2-0-details-stacks-just-type-exhibition-and-more">webOS 2.0 first hit the scene over two years ago</a>, LunaCE gives TouchPad users the &#39;zoomed out&#39; mini card management view, just tapping below a card shrinks the size of your cards so you can see more at once (for this reason we&#39;d love to see a webOS Community Edition for smartphones).</p>
<p>One of the more tantalizing additions to the LunaCE beta is the &#39;<a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-bring-better-notifications">dynamic dashboard height API</a>&#39;, which we first saw pictured in early July. The new API allows developers to build notifications or dashboard widgets of more than the standard height, opening the window to a richer and more interactive notification pane. webOS homebrew developer garrett92c is already taking advantage of the new API, producing in the webOS Nation Forums <a href="http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad-homebrew/318415-app-weather-widget.html">a Weather Widget app</a> that puts a tall widget into the notification pane that gives the temperature and conditions, sunset and sunrise time, wind speed, and humidity, all on top of a representative image of said weather. It&#39;s simple, attractive, and the kind of stuff we should have had a year ago from HP. But we&#39;ll take it from the homebrew community and WebOS Ports than not get it at all.</p>
<p>As before, LunaCE is still in beta status, so you&#39;ll need to enable the Beta testing feeds in Preware to be able to give it a go. Thankfully, there are instructions for that at <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a> so you can get your beta on.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/new-lunace-beta-includes-tall-dashboard-widgets-new-keyboard-layouts-better-cards-management#commentsAppscardsdashboardLunaCELunaSysMgrmultitaskingNewsnotificationsWeather WidgetwebOS Community EditionSat, 08 Sep 2012 02:54:16 +0000Derek Kessler15745 at http://www.webosnation.comLunaCE graduates to beta status, ready to remove your rippleshttp://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="LunaCE graduates to beta status, ready to remove your ripples" class="imagecache-large" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/large/postimages/84473/lunca-ce-2.JPG" title="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-sees-first-release-webos-ports-lunace-alpha">Just two weeks ago LunaCE was released</a> by <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-ports">WebOS Ports</a> in alpha status. The homebrewed improvement to the LunaSysMgr that was released as part of HP&#39;s <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tags/webos-community-edition">webOS Community Edition project</a> brought a number of enhancements to willing testers, including <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tabbed-card-stacks-infinite-card-view-and-additional-keyboard-layouts-happening-thanks-webos-communi">tabbed card stacks</a> and <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-yields-touchpad-gesture-based-app-switching">app switching gestures</a>. After a bunch of testing, bug fixes, and a few improvements, LunaCE is graduating up to the beta feeds in Preware.</p>
<p>The set-up process for getting into the beta feeds is almost identical to that for the alpha feeds, so if you&#39;re interested in trying out the LunaCE beta, you can head over to <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a> for instructions. It&#39;s important to note that LunaCE alpha testers will have to delete the Alpha from their TouchPad before attempting to install the beta. That said, our caveat from before - how you should tread carefully with alpha software - can be lightened a bit in this newfound beta status. Showstopping bugs should be squashed, and while everything&#39;s not necessarily perfect, LunaCE is by-and-large in the ironing out wrinkles phase and ready for wider-spread deployment. As before, if you&#39;ve got something you think should be added to LunaCE, <a href="https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/486337/stories">there&#39;s a place for that</a>, and there&#39;s also a place for you to <a href="http://issues.webos-ports.org/">log and track any bug reports</a> with the software.</p>
<p>Speaking of wrinkles, there&#39;s a new little feature that&#39;s been added to the LunaCE beta: you can now turn off the not-that-iconic-but-it&#39;s-always-been-part-of-webOS ripple tap indicator. You know, that little ripple overlay that briefly appears on the screen when you tap on anything? Yeah, that thing. If that&#39;s the sort of thing that bothers you (after three years of webOS usage we&#39;ve stopped noticing it), then the LunaCE beta now adds an option in Tweaks for you to turn the ripple off, no Luna restart needed.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/lunace-graduates-beta-status-ready-remove-your-ripples#commentsalphabetaCommunity EditionLunaCELunaCE betaNewsrippletap indicatortap rippletweakswebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsWed, 29 Aug 2012 23:28:24 +0000Derek Kessler15724 at http://www.webosnation.comwebOS Community Edition sees first release as webOS Ports' LunaCE Alphahttp://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-sees-first-release-webos-ports-lunace-alpha
<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="webOS Community Edition sees first release as webOS Ports' LunaCE Alpha" class="imagecache-large" src="http://cdn.webosnation.com/sites/webosnation.com/files/imagecache/large/postimages/84473/lunace-alpha.JPG" title="" /></p>
<p>HP released the <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-305-community-edition-released-open-source">webOS 3.0.5 LunaSysMgr component to open source</a> back in late June and worked with webOS homebrew pioneers WebOS Internals to put together the WebOS Ports group to guide development of the Community Edition project. We&#39;ve seen plenty of what webOS developers have been able to hack into the open source component, but something that normal people like you and me could install wasn&#39;t yet available.</p>
<p>Technically speaking, what we have now is something that normal people could install, but it&#39;s not something that normal people should install. At least not yet. After two months of work the first alpha releases for the WebOS Ports version of the Community Edition LunaSysMgr have been released as the new LunaCE package that incorporates some of what we&#39;ve seen unveiled and some new things too.</p>
<p>There&#39;s something very important to note: it&#39;s an alpha release, so it&#39;s guaranteed neither stability nor functionality. We installed it on one of our TouchPads to give it a test drive and it&#39;s generally pretty smooth, though it has some quirks (like odd spacing in the dock and issues with PIN locks). If you depend on your TouchPad, it&#39;s not something we&#39;d recommend installing just yet, just to be safe. Plus it&#39;s good to be able to contribute to the process if you&#39;re going to install the LunaCE alpha - it&#39;s known to have some bugs, but there are likely others, and the WebOS Ports team needs some first-level testing to make it happen. Don&#39;t feel bad if you think you should wait for the beta version, or the release version; there&#39;s no shame in that.</p>
<p>So what all does LunaCE offer at this point? Infinite card cycling (reach the end of your spread of multitasking cards, swipe again to jump to the far end), <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tabbed-card-stacks-infinite-card-view-and-additional-keyboard-layouts-happening-thanks-webos-communi">tabbed card stacks</a> (swipe from the edge in a stacked card to see a column of mini cards in that same stack to quickly switch), <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-yields-touchpad-gesture-based-app-switching">edge bezel card switching</a> (swipe, slide, or drag in from the bezel to move to the next card - pictured above), and a universal search icon in the title bar, among other things. All of these features are controlled through the latest version of <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/tweaks-webos-internals-fine-tunes-your-patches">Tweaks</a>, which adds a new section for Luna options.</p>
<p>LunaCE is installable through Preware, but you&#39;ll need both access to the alpha feeds and the newest alpha version of Preware. Getting yourself set up in the alpha feeds requires terminal access on your TouchPad (either by hooking up through <a href="http://www.webosnation.com/how-install-homebrew-apps-your-touchpad-or-webos-smartphone">WebOS Quick Install</a> or using Xecutah) and following the instructions at <a href="http://testing.preware.org">testing.preware.org</a>. Once you&#39;re set up with the alpha feeds, installing LunaCE is a simple matter: bring it up in Preware, tap install, and then performa a Luna Restart. Hope into Tweaks to turn things on or off and you&#39;re ready to rock on the bleeding edge of homebrew. There is, of course, the unaltered Palm LunaSysMgr available to install in LunaCE&#39;s place should things not be to your liking.</p>
<p>We&#39;ll be keeping an eye on LunaCE as it progresses, it&#39;s am exciting homebrew project and we&#39;re glad that we&#39;ve got WebOS Ports and WebOS Internals on the job with the support from HP.</p>
http://www.webosnation.com/webos-community-edition-sees-first-release-webos-ports-lunace-alpha#commentsalphaAppsCommunity EditionLunaCELunaCE AlphaLunaSysMgrwebOS Community EditionWebOS PortsFri, 17 Aug 2012 02:14:02 +0000Derek Kessler15697 at http://www.webosnation.com